Makoto Arimura

Makoto Arimura is a professor at Tokai University, Japan. He studied at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, under Professor Akira Tsuneki, and obtained his PhD (2007) from the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, under Professor Olivier Aurenche and Dr Éric Coqueugniot. His primary research topic is the transformation of human society during Neolithisation, through changes in material culture, particularly the transition of stone tool manufacturing technology in the Neolithic Near East.